 Weekend Roundup: Watch For The New Breakthrough In 'Amplified Intelligence' This week, The WorldPost features a conversation with bio-tech pioneer and entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong on the "great convergence" he is forging in medical care by bringing together supercomputing, cloud computing and machine vision to create "amplified intelligence." Dr. Soon-Shiong is a WorldPost contributing editor for Medicine and Technology. | |
| James Manyika, Susan Lund & Olivia Nottebohm: CHART-- America Is No Longer The World's Most Connected Economy America is no longer the world's most connected economy--those laurels go to Germany. Germany ranks first, and the U.S. third, with two smaller economies--Hong Kong and Singapore--coming in second and fourth. The index shows that the trade intensity of the U.S.--the value of flows relative to the size of its economy--is only one-third the intensity of Germany and half that of China. Thomas Piketty: Thomas Piketty's Response To The Financial Times The main message coming from my book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, is not that there should always be a deterministic trend toward ever rising inequality (I do not believe in this); the main message is that we need more democratic transparency about wealth dynamics, so that we are able to adjust our institutions and policies to whatever we observe. I welcome all criticisms and I am very happy that the book has stimulated a global debate about very important social and economic issues. But my problem with the FT's criticism, in particular, is twofold. First, I did not find it particularly constructive. The FT suggests that I made mistakes and errors in my computations, which is simply wrong. Secondly, the FT's more important corrections are based upon methodological choices that are quite debatable, to say the least. | |
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 | Bernard-Henri Lévy: Toward A Government Of National Unity In France France is in danger. In Sunday's elections for the European Parliament, a quarter of France's citizens voted for the worst, choosing the party that was not only anti-Europe but also anti-France. |
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 | Mehdi Hasan: How Do I Tell My Daughter That People Across Europe Fear Minorities Like Us? Hundreds of column inches have been devoted to explaining how austerity economics, democratic deficits and mass immigration have helped bolster the continent's far-right fanatics and neo-Nazi nutters. Our politicians and pundits have been less keen, however, to discuss the Islam-sized elephant in the room: what unites Europe's far-right parties perhaps more than any other issue is their fear and loathing of people such as my wife and me. |
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 | Max Tholl: Election Results: Ukraine Looks To An Integrated Europe Its Own Voters Reject A twisted turn of events led to the coinciding of the European elections with the presidential election in Ukraine. And the contrast couldn't be starker. In Ukraine, people strove and fought for Western-style democracy, whereas here, many are left disillusioned by just that. The results show how many people have turned their backs on Europe and are now following the siren calls from the extreme ends of the political spectrum. Voters have granted populists of all colors sweeping victories in many countries, establishing them as mainstream parties and making their political views more and more socially acceptable. This is the real historical moment of this election: the return to our own past, the return to a history whose long shadows we have been trying to eradicate. The election results render true what Marx knew many years ago: that history repeats itself -- first as tragedy, second as farce. |
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